ABSTRACT
From an essay on ‘Homer and the Homeridae’, first published in Blackwood’s Magazine, October to December 1841. The text here follows The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, ed. David Masson (Edinburgh, 1890), vol. vi, pp. 84–5. De Quincey (1785–1859), critic and friend of the Lake Poets, wrote well on Dr Johnson and other eighteenth-century topics.
